A wife makes a fateful choice to save her child while her husband is away at war only to be resented for it on his return in an uncharacteristically dark drama from Yasujiro Ozu.
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Equinox Flower (彼岸花, Yasujiro Ozu, 1958)
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The Munekata Sisters (宗方姉妹, Yasujiro Ozu, 1950)
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Good Morning (お早よう, Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
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Record of a Tenement Gentleman (長屋紳士録, Yasujiro Ozu, 1947)
A cynical old woman regains her sense of humanity after unwillingly fostering a lost little boy in Ozu’s heartwarming post-war drama
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (靑春の夢いまいづこ, Yasujiro Ozu, 1932)
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August in the Water (水の中の八月, Sogo Ishii, 1995)
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Dust in the Wind (戀戀風塵, Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1986)
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Girls in the Orchard / 花の中の娘たち / Hana no naka no musumetachi (1953)
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Wind, Woman and Road (風と女と旅鴉, Tai Kato, 1958)
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